| Lemma | generic category |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
| Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | specific grammatical category (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | A ‘generic’ category is a whole system or classification: English number, Spanish gender, Latin case.
On the other hand, many generic categories are so extensive that every stem of some major part of speech belongs to one or another of the associated specific categories (if the generic category is selective), or is invariably inflected for one or another of the specific categories […]. |